Subgoals of the project ÖSL-NRW
Characterization of the forestry associations
- Testing of various options for the automated derivation of forest and tree parameters for assessing the forest structure of forest ES.
- Integration of special structure characteristics from terrestrial inventory and automatically recorded parameters into the classic documentation of stocking and operating conditions in forest associations and enterprises.
Recording of regional requirements regarding ecosystem services (ES) and their economic evaluation
- Identification of regional requirements regarding ecosystem services (ES) for forest enterprises and forest associations.
- Economic evaluation of forest ES for the population in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Development of an indicator-based martix focusing on special forest structures and of an approach for the remuneration of forest ES
- Creation of matrix.
- Evaluation of service provision in the model region for selected ES.
- Development of an approach for the remuneration of forest ES.
- Integration of the ES indicators into forest management and planning processes.
Development of silvicultural recommendations for forest management (optionally ES-oriented planning) for the development and optimization of individual ES
- Selection and creation of indicator areas on site.
- Development of silvicultural treatment programs to promote specific ES.
Regionalization and transfer of the remuneration model to pre-selected forestry operations and forestry associations in the model region
- Regionalization and operational variant study.
- Transfer of the remuneration model to single forestry enterprises and forest associations in the model region.